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How the world's highest-dwelling mammal survives above 6,700 metres
Andean leaf-eared mice endure minus 60 degrees and half the oxygen of sea level by turning their whole metabolism into a furnace, a study in Science finds.
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How Devoted Dads Evolved: Citizen Scientists Rewrite the Story of Parental Care
By pairing three decades of fieldwork with iNaturalist photos, researchers doubled the known cases of parental care in harvestmen – and traced how fatherhood arose again and again.
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NASA telescope pins down a 'lighthouse' pulsar's magnetic field for the first time
IXPE's X-ray vision confirmed how high-energy particles escape one of the cosmos's most extreme objects – and found its magnetism calmer than expected.
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A 72,000-study audit finds preprints hold up surprisingly well
When biomedical papers posted online before peer review reach a journal, their central conclusions rarely change — and they are retracted less often, a large new analysis reports.
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The quiet atomic trick that keeps gold from ever tarnishing
Physicists at Tulane University find that gold's surface atoms rearrange into a shape that all but blocks oxygen — explaining a shine that lasts for centuries.
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A rare fossil goose rewrites how New Zealand's birds evolved
Named Meterchen luti, an extinct goose from a Miocene lake bed turns out not to be the ancestor of New Zealand's giant geese, pointing to a more turbulent bird history.
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A single back bone reveals Thailand's first long-necked giant dinosaur
Uragasaurus kalasinensis, a 20-metre plant-eater from 150 million years ago, extends the range of China's famed long-necked dinosaurs into Southeast Asia.
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A billion tiny acts of curiosity: online volunteers hit a research milestone
Zooniverse says more than three million people have now made one billion classifications, helping scientists spot planets, comets and wildlife.
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Euclid telescope uncovers 31 ancient quasars, two from the universe's first 670 million years
A space-based survey has more than doubled the known count of these ancient cosmic beacons, including two that shone when the cosmos was barely 5% of its present age.
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An Hour-Long Flicker May Reveal a Moon-Mass Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way
Australian astronomers report a brief microlensing event whose best explanation is a primordial black hole about three times the mass of the Moon — and a promising new way to probe dark matter.
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China's Tianwen-2 Returns the First Close-Up View of Earth's Quasi-Moon
The sample-return probe has reached the tiny companion asteroid Kamo'oalewa and sent home an image that is already sharpening the debate over where the rock came from.
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Harvard's Repurposed Chip Writes DNA in Water, Not Solvents
A semiconductor once built to eavesdrop on neurons now synthesizes 64 DNA strands in parallel using only electric currents and water, pointing toward greener, more accessible genetic manufacturing.
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Heidelberg Physicists Unite Two Long-Separate Pictures of Quantum Impurities
A team at Heidelberg University has built a single framework that reconciles the mobile Fermi polaron with the heavy, near-immobile impurity, closing a decades-old gap in quantum many-body theory.
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Elusive Goblin Shark Filmed Alive in Its Deep-Sea Home for the First Time
Two chance encounters in the Central Pacific — one on archived expedition video, one on a baited deep-sea camera — show the rare "living fossil" thriving in the wild and greatly expand where it is known to live.
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AI Gives Water Researchers a Common Yardstick for Molecular Order
Researchers at the University of Osaka trained a neural network to compare 16 rival measures of water's molecular structure and reveal which best capture its strange behavior.
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Researchers Map the Molecular Machinery Behind a Family of Cancer Drugs
A newly identified bacterial “docking” system shows how microbes make variants of romidepsin-like drugs, offering chemists a template for designing new ones.
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Seabed Sensors Capture New Ocean Crust Being Born
An array of instruments on the Southeast Indian Ridge recorded a rare seafloor-spreading event in unprecedented detail, revealing that much of the plate motion happens silently.
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Ancient DNA From a Tomb Near Paris Sheds Light on the End of Europe's Megaliths
A study of 132 Stone Age genomes shows one population vanished and another arrived, offering a data-driven answer to a long-standing archaeological puzzle.
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AI Model Slashes the Cost of Simulating How Stars Forge Heavy Elements
A German-led team's open-source neural network, RHINE, reproduces the heat of exploding stars' nuclear reactions in a fraction of the usual computing time.